Faithful Mary

Famous quotes containing the words faithful and/or mary:

“Better dressed and stacking birch,
or lost with the Faithful at Church—
anywhere, but somewhere else!”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)